Guides
Practical guides to understanding and reclaiming disk space on macOS. Why your Mac says it's full when Finder shows room to spare, what purgeable space actually is, and how to find the folders that really cost you bytes. Written by the people who built a disk tool because the others lie.
The highest-yield fixes, ranked by what they actually return: thin local Time Machine snapshots, delete the iOS backups you forgot about, clear the caches that rebuild themselves. Plus the reason deleting an 87 GB folder frees 12 GB.
Read the guide →A grey bar eating 150 GB with nothing to click. System Data is not a category, it’s the leftovers bin: snapshots, caches, swap, and the phone backups nobody told you were there. What’s in it, what’s safe to remove, and what to leave alone.
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Finder can do this, and the option is hidden behind a dropdown almost
nobody opens. Here’s that, the two Terminal commands worth
knowing, why du overcounts on APFS, and what to do
when the problem is a folder rather than a file.
On a working developer’s Mac, Xcode and its debris are usually the largest thing on the disk, and nearly all of it regenerates. DerivedData, DeviceSupport, simulator runtimes, archives: what each one costs, and what it costs you to delete it.
Read the guide →"Your disk is almost full" with 40 GB still showing in Finder. Deleting files frees nothing. The usual culprits are purgeable space, local Time Machine snapshots, and APFS counting bytes in ways no menu bar explains. Here's how to see what's really going on and get the space back.
Read the guide →More guides are on the way. If there's a disk-space question that keeps biting you, tell us at support@khaosstudio.com or on our Discord and we'll write it up.